Word: ployes
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...only conclude that this recent concern for student opinions is a shabby ploy to mollify potential outrage. But there is another, more honest way to mollify student outrage. Fund the whole renovations. Rather than set Cabot against North in competition for the remaining funds, University Hall could come up with the cash to meet its commitment...
Wilson's intense desire to see General Huerta removed obviously led him to search for a suitable replacement. The most promising candidate he could find was one Venustiano Carranza and his band of "Constitutionalists." But they were consitutionalists in name only, as a clever ploy to appeal to Wilson. When they eventually gained power, they threw their democratic pretensions out the window and left Wilson with a regime even more despotic than the one he had seen overthrown...
...when fighting broke out. But General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev did seek to score some propaganda points. In a speech on Wednesday, the Soviet leader denounced the "imperial, bandit face" of U.S. policy, and then offered to withdraw Soviet naval forces from the Mediterranean if the U.S. did likewise. The ploy was scarcely plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests in the Mediterranean is considered vital and stretches back 40 years. Gorbachev's offer, said one official, was in effect asking the U.S. to sacrifice a knight for a pawn. On Saturday, Gorbachev went still further by calling...
Some airborne smugglers try to bring coke or heroin through Customs in their baggage, an old-fashioned but sometimes successful ploy. Another, potentially deadly, technique is to pack the drug in condoms and swallow them or insert them in body orifices. If the package breaks, the carrier is likely to die of an overdose. One day last November, inspectors at New York's Kennedy Airport caught 13 smugglers who had swallowed or inserted their contraband...
...that exempts Britain and France from restricting their forces and moves toward compromise on other sticking points. There is still hard negotiating ahead, and Gorbachev last week warned that there must be "concrete progress" on arms control for a summit to be worthwhile. For him, it was a tactical ploy: having offered inducements, he was now applying pressure. But U.S. officials believe there could indeed be an interim INF deal of some kind ready for signing this year. Such a success would feed even greater expectations in the West. As a result, the Reagan Administration would then be under greater...